Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Support multiple VNC clients

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 02:49:31PM -0500, Brian Kress wrote:
> Attached is a patch that allows qemu to support multiple vnc clients.  
> Each client can have their own
> VNC encodings and VNC state.
> 
> General idea:
> 
> Change structure associated with a display from VncState to a new 
> structure VncDisplay. 
> Remove client specific fields from VncDisplay.
> Remove display specific fields from VncState.
> Maintain a linked list of VncStates per VncDisplay structure, update as 
> necessary.
> When updates/resizes/copies come in from the hardware, dispatch to all 
> clients.
> 
> 
> Patch is against current SVN (6618)
> Any ideas/suggestions/comments/flames appreciated.

Perhaps also add a -vnc command line flag to let us control policy for
multiple clients interactions ?  eg some policies I think of

 - Single client, new clients dropped
 - Single client, original client dropped
 - Many clients, first full access, others view only
 - Many clients, all full access

Daniel
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